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Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by lilyball »

g-camargo wrote: post #2

I've been working on Decipad. It's a low-code notebook to tell stories with numbers and build interactive models. It's like Notion with spreadsheet-like capabilities. You can build and publish interactive notebooks for things like forecasting, burn rate, a mortgage calculator, or just something fun. We're testing with early access users. Would be grateful for any feedback if you're interested! Decipad.com

Is there any way to try it out interactively without having to sign up for early access? When I loaded the website and I read what it said about changing Discount Rate, I immediately tried clicking around to actually do that and see the change but of course it didn't work.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by [deleted] »

skybrian wrote: post #10

Too bad the documentation isn’t online. What does it use for formulas? How do you share notebooks? Do you need the app to view them? I’m pretty happy with Observable’s notebooks. It means you need to know JavaScript, though, and furthermore learn Observable’s quirks [1] and a plotting library. [1] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

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Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by vthommeret »

KMnO4 wrote: post #15
Rafsark wrote: post #12

That's probably something I would see "on-top" of Notion. I really like the formulas on steroid, but having another tool inside the company is a bit painful. Notion team could authorize add-ons built on top...

OTOH, I'm desperate for a tool that's "like Notion, but better", where my primary definition of "better" is that it's not slow/bloated. If this is lightweight AND has these cool data modelling features then I'm on board.

They’ve started to move their iOS app to native views which has made a big difference so seems like they’re prioritizing performance.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by djhaskin987 »

ibdf wrote: post #5

I wish Notion would allow people to build third-party plugins/add-ons. This looks really cool but it would be so much cooler if it build on top of everything Notion already does.

Yes, but then you would end up with, well, Confluence.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by Terretta »

r2sk5t wrote: post #18

Congrats! Whether it's Notion, Google Docs/Sheet/Slides, Coda, Figma, Adobe Cloud, iCloud, Slack, Google Drive, One Drive, etc. the issue for me is content management and SSO. There is a high bar to get anointed to manage content inside a company/team. For example, we use Office 365 and OneDrive for file management. But, I prefer Keynote over PowerPoint. Saving Keynote to OneDrive folders works perfectly fine. Of cou…

Or at least the SSO + a full audit trail.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by cheriot »

djhaskin987 wrote: post #25
ibdf wrote: post #5

I wish Notion would allow people to build third-party plugins/add-ons. This looks really cool but it would be so much cooler if it build on top of everything Notion already does.

Yes, but then you would end up with, well, Confluence.

Let's be fair, none of the products mentioned in these comments are as bad as Confluence.

Re: Decipad – Like Notion with problem-solving capabilities

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Post by SCLeo »

leobg wrote: post #8

Would like to see a demo video. Reading through the landing page doesn’t really tell me what this does, or how are using it would work.

Agreed. Or, since it is an interactive application, it would be very nice to just show a interactable demo on the front page.
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